The recent tragedy off Italy in which over 300 people may have died after a boat carrying African migrants sank, underlines the need for the European Union and its Member States to revisit current measures to combat irregular migration.

Vienna’s LGBT anti-discrimination office ‘is an excellent example of what cities and local authorities more generally can effectively and concretely do to promote and protect fundamental rights, including the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people,’ said FRA Director Morten Kjaerum on 3 October. He was giving the keynote speech at a conference celebrating 15 years of Vienna’s LGBT anti-discrimination office (‘Antidiskriminierungsstelle für gleichgeschlechtliche und transgender Lebensweisen - WASt’), the first such office of its kind in Austria.